Exporting your video from Ulead Mediastudio
Pro 7

Essentially this part is very very easy, but
there are some things here that people make mistakes on so it's worth
going through what you need to do.

Firstly, your export settings should be identical
to your project settings in every way but the codec. This means
that in order to get the same looking amv out of your project that you
saw in the preview window then you need to keep all the settings
exactly the same. The only exception to this rule, as I have said is
the codec.

Secondly, in this guide we are going to export
the audio separately as well as part of the video file - this will give
us easy access to the audio
stream later on.

Also, this guide is geared towards compression
with software codecs - if you are using the features of a hardware
video editing card (such as a DV card) then you should consult the
manual for that card. Of course, it should be equally possible to still
use these settings but you will lose any realtime rendering benefits
(and archiving benefits with DV).

Exporting the Video

Go to File menu > Create >Video File...

You will the see a box like this:

Locate an appropriate folder and enter a name
such as the one above.

Unless you are exporting for your DV, you should choose Microsoft
AVI files (*.avi) in Save as Type.

Now click Options... to change the settings of the default
template.

You will notice that many of the defaults have
been deselected here. Let me go through each setting so you know why.

Entire Project vs Preview Range: I did
not have a preview range selected when I made this screencap. This will
decide how much of the project timeline is exported. Entire project
means the whole thing and Preview range will only export the
section you have selected.

Perform non-square pixel rendering: This should be
deselected as we are editing everything with square pixels. We do not
need the aspect ratio compensating for display on a monitor - we can
tweak the aspect ratio after we export.

Play after creating: Unnecessary and may crash your
program, so don't do it - test the file in media player or
virtualdubmod instead.

Perform SmartRender: This is a bad idea for people
editing in Video for Windows and using a preview codec like MJPEG.
This will use your previews in your encode to save time but this is not
what you want as it will reduce the quality of your video. You can keep
this enabled if you are using a hardware DV solution.

Key frame control: You do not need to set any of these
options as both Huffyuv and DV have every frame as a keyframe.

Cropping: We can do this later, so it is unimportant.
For DV this is not a good idea as you need to keep the full screen
resolution.

General Settings menu:

Data Track: Audio and Video will export
both into one avi file. This is fine although we don't need the audio
here as we will also export it separately.

Frame Rate: This should be identical to you source.
23.976
if using FILM, 29.97 if using full NTSC and 25fps if using PAL.

Frame Size: The standard frame rate is fine unless your
project has a different one, in which case you should use the User
Defined options.

AVI Settings Menu:

Compression: This is the important part. There
are only 2 things you could ever want to choose here - HuffYUV (included
in the AMVapp)
or Uncompressed (unless you are using the native options of a
hardware card).
Occasionally I get errors with my HuffYUV files which result in what I
call 'dirty frames'. This could be just my system but whenever this
happens I resort to using uncompressed RGB. It's big as hell but it
works.

HuffYUV actually has 2 modes of compression - YUV and RGB.
You
should always export RGB as it is the native editing
colourspace of the program - this ensures that everything will look as
it is supposed to.

To make sure that HuffYUV compresses the footage in RGB mode,
and to set up other options, choose 'Configure' next to the
compressor.

In RGB compression method you should always have Predict
Gradient (best) selected. This will make sure that when Ulead
sends the codec RGB footage that it is compressed as RGB and not as
YUY2.

The other options in the Huffyuv settings are not actually
important when exporting from Ulead. Enable RGBA compression
is useful if you have used Alpha Channels but this is mostly a feature
you would need more for Adobe After Effects. Enabling this option in
Ulead would just give you needlessly bigger files.

Data Type: You should choose 24-bit RGB
when converting to huffyuv.

Audio: Format - Should be PCM

Audio: Attributes - This should be identical to your
source wav. For a CD rip this is 44.100 kHz 16bit stereo. For
DVD ripped audio it may be 48kHz. Check your source wav to be 100% sure.

Once you have all those set, let's look at the last menu that you can
access by clicking the Advanced...button.

Data Rate will not be needed in your encode
but Recompress will and should always be selected.

Interleave audio and video should be selected if
exporting the audio at this point and set to 1 frames.

Pad frames for CD-ROM is totally unnecessary for this
kind of export. This is used to keep a fixed bitrate for easier
decoding from cd-rom.

You should now be good to go. Click ok until you are back to
the save file box, check your filename is correct
and export that video.

Be warned, these files are big. If you are using
Windows 2000 or XP make sure that you export to a hard drive that uses
the NTFS file system otherwise long amvs might exceed the 2 gig file
limit on old FAT32 drives. If you are running windows 98 then you are
going to be limited to 2 gig - if you can't export the whole movie for
this reason then you will have to select a frame range and export it in
two or more sections. You can join these later in AVIsynth as follows: